GRITSCH, Johannes (1409-1475). Quadragesimale. [Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, [14]81.
GRITSCH, Johannes (1409-1475). Quadragesimale. [Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, [14]81.
GRITSCH, Johannes (1409-1475). Quadragesimale. [Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, [14]81.
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GRITSCH, Johannes (1409-1475). Quadragesimale. [Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, [14]81.

The ninth of twenty-four known incunable editions of this popular collection of 50 Lenten sermons, and the second of three Koberger editions. A monastic copy with copious marginalia. HC *8067; GW 11546; BMC II 421; Bod-inc G-256; BSB-Ink G-398; ISTC ig00497000; Goff G-497.

Super chancery folio (316 x 216mm). 198 leaves with the first blank, opening initials in red, blue, and sometimes brown, rubricated, vellum quire-guards reusing manuscript leaves, a few traces of early quiring preserved (last leaf loose, first blank starting, some worming to first and last few quires mostly, a few light stains). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards from a workshop in Ingolstadt [Schwenke-Sammlung p.149, 27b], manuscript title and library marks on spine (light worming, a few repairs, without bosses, clasps renewed). Provenance: hand-painted coat-of-arms with Mount Calvary dated 1487 on first blank – Buxheim Carthusian monastery (contemporary inscription and ?later library stamp on first printed leaf) – manuscript lists of biblical names and places on rear pastedown.
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